Neck-yoke attachment



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H T RICHMOND NECK YOKE ATTACHMENT. No. 527,372.v Patented Oct. 9, 1894.-

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H. T. RICHMOND, NEGKYOKE ATTACHMENT.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. HENRYAT. RICHMOND, OF MALVERN, IOWA.

NECK-YOKE ATTACH MENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 527,372, dated October 9, 1894.

Application filed April 4, 1894- Serial No. 506,305- No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY T. RICHMOND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Malvern, 1n the county of Mills and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Neck-Yoke Attachments; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain improvements in harness attachments, more especiallyin the means for hitching-up the team to the pole or tongue, and it has for its object to effect this in a simple and effective manner; to reduce wear and friction to a minimum and to provide for freedom of movement and without noise or rattle between the parts, and for the convertibility of the attachment for use either with light, or heavy, vehicles; and to these ends the invention consists of abreaststrap having a novel connection with the neckyoke and adapted for connection either with the collar as in light vehicles, or with the breast-piece, as in heavy vehicles, all substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view showing my invention as applied for use for light vehicles. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the invention as adapted for heavy vehicles.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken through Fig. 1. Fig. at is a similar view taken through Fig. 2. Figs. 5 and dare detail views of the form of my invention disclosed in Figs. 1 and 3, and Fig. 7 is a detail View of the form embodied in Figs. 2 and l.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a breast-strap A, the upper end of which is formed into a loop a, to permit its ready application to,and through which passes, the

collar, and upon the inside of this loop is secured a widened, shield like piece of leather a forming an extended bearing-surface therefor upon the collar, to reduce the tendency the strap otherwise would have of cutting or wearing out the collar, and undue friction thereat.

The strap A is buckled as at a near its lower end, to a suspender-like end-piece B consisting of a strap doubled upon itself into a loop carrying the buckle edecting the oonnection between it and said strapA, and having secured to itself a loop b which receives and confines the free end of the strap A. The end piece 13 is exteriorly armed, or has applied to it, a bent metal strap or jacket Z2 con forming thereto, and into which said endpiece Bis forced and tightly retained, the bent end of said metal strap or jacket, and of the end-piece, having coincident slots for the buckle-tongue to play through.

0 is a carrier or loop to receive and carry one end of the neck-yoke D, is of leather and also widened to furnish a broad or extended bearing surface for the latter, with its bottom portion transversely slotted as at c to receive, or permit the passage therethrough of, an eye or staple d on the neck yoke, and compassing the carrier or loop 0 is also a reinforcing metal-strap or jacket 0, carried or looped through said eye or staple, thus holding the carrier or loop 0 in position on the neck-yoke.

The end-strap B, with its bent metal-strap b, and the loop or carrier (3, with its bent metal-strap c, are swiveled together to permit independent lateral play thereof to lessen friction and prevent buckling of the breaststrap, the swiveling connection being effected by a readily manipulated screw-bolt 6 passing loosely through apertures in the aforesaid parts and having its screw-threaded end suitably held in a screw-threaded socketpiece or nut e applied thereto, outside of the adjacent arm of the bent metal-strap c.

All the metal-parts of the invention being out of contact with each other and with any other moving parts it is obvious that the same will be noiseless in operation or use.

This form of my invention is suited for light vehicles, or wherein the breast-strap is connected directly to the collar.

As shown in Figs. 2, 4 and 7, provision is also made for the application of my invention to heavy vehicles, or wherein a breastpiece is employed, and to effect this, I substitute in lieu of the breast-strap A and endstrap B a metal loop E swiveled directly to the neck-yoke carrier 0 and which is slipped upon, and directly through which is passed, the breast-piece. The metal loop E is formed of a metal strap bent to conform to-the shape of the breast-piece, in the present instance said loop having an approximate stirrup-form. Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of a breast strap having a loop a, at its upper end, a bearing 100p or surface a, of leather upon theinner side of the loop a, and having greater width than the latter, an end -piece B carried by said breast strap and carrying a loop I), which receives the free end of thebreast strap, a metal strap 1) encompassing the loop b,and a neckyoke carrier 0 swiveled to the end-piece B and having itsbottom portion slotted as at c, the neck-yoke provided with a staple projecting through the slot 0, and a metal strap 0' encompassing the carrier '0 and passing through'the staple, as and for the purpose 2o specified.

2. The combination with the neck-yoke carrier O of a metal strap of less width than the carrier and encompassing the same, said carrier being provided at its bottom portion with a; slot; 'c', a neck-yoke 'provided with a staple passing through said slot, said strap passing through said staple and a connecting piece and adapted to be connected with a breastpiec'e, as and for the purpose specified.

In testiniony whereof I affix my signature in p-resen-ce-of two witnesses.

T. BI CHM OND, p Witnessesr GEO. B. FoUoKs, JOHN DU SHANE.

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